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judgecorp writes "The UK government is proposing a law that would require phone and Internet companies to store information on all communications, and hand it to the security services when required. The Communications Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP) abandoned by the last government is back on the table, proposed as a means to increase security, and likely to be pushed through before the Olympics in London, according to reports."

You're describing the situation in Argentina. Our government is doing many of the points you mention (8: war on grupo clarin, 1: nation-wide HDTV and fiber optics internet, 9: forcing importers to export in a 1:1 ratio)

they also closed down all private retirement funds overnight. it's all state-owned now.

it's not going so well... a lot of stuff is already missing. brazil (our main trading partner) is getting upset. you need authorization to import anything.

we're doing some other things too, like compulsive re-issue of all national documents (with biometrics like fingerprint and photo stored online). "electronic" receipts with an copy going in real-time to the tax collecting agency (AFIP), which also has access to all bank accounts...